Word: vinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effortless skating of Guy Owen and Maribel Vinson will probably satisfy ice purists. Stunts purely difficult, but lacking any sort of entertainment value, are kept to a bare minimum. Perhaps the hardest stunt, and certainly the most unsuccessful, is the attempt to dub in music from off-stage while the performers are going through an intricate dance, and apparently a crisis in the plot. There is little original music; most of the songs come from old musical comedies, and are supposed to fit the current situation in the story. While there is something definitely second-rate about this, "Everything...
...Said Vinson: "The interests of orderly government demand that respect and compliance be given to orders issued by courts. . . . [Lewis' defiance] was an attempt to repudiate and override the instrument of lawful government...
...Thrust. The Court might have confined itself to the question of contempt, plastered Lewis with the fine and let it go at that. But not this Court. Boldly, Chief Justice Vinson struck out into the jungle country of the Norris-LaGuardia Act. The case did raise the question of whether the Act can be applied when the Government is the employer. In other words, can workers under Government authority keep the right to strike? Lewis' miners were technically working for the Government when they struck...
...Sovereign. But five justices (Vinson, Black, Douglas, Reed, Burton) disagreed, and by the weight of their majority their ruling became...
...intent of Congress, which wrote the Act, that the Act should not apply to Government? Union lawyers argued that if Congress intended to exclude the Government from the Act it would have said so. Congressman James Beck had argued at the time that Congress should have said so. Vinson impatiently, almost angrily, brushed aside that argument. "We do not accept his [Beck's] views...